2019-02-10, 05:39 PM
What's TBC? Is it any good?
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2019-02-10, 05:46 PM
TBC = Time Base Corrector - read more on wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_base_correction
IMHO, it MUST be present to capture VHS, not mandatory with LD, as all players have their own TBC.
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2019-02-11, 02:09 AM
How can I tell if my player has it?
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2019-02-11, 02:23 AM
(2019-02-11, 02:09 AM)FrankT Wrote: How can I tell if my player has it? Try to find out a manual or specs on the net... or, just take a look at something like "stabilization" or the like - or, if lucky, you can just have a nice "TBC" button! I remember the top line models from Panasonic and JVC had this, almost sure no others, apart professional ones.
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2019-02-11, 01:26 PM
Oh.. my Toshiba DVR20 doesn't have it... have you any recommendations?
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2019-02-11, 01:41 PM
(2019-02-11, 01:26 PM)FrankT Wrote: Oh.. my Toshiba DVR20 doesn't have it... have you any recommendations? Are we talking about a DVD-R?!? If so, most probably IT HAS! If you have a capture card, just capture a VHS directly, and pass it through a DVD recorder; if the latter is stable, it means it has a TBC - and, mostly, if not all, have it.
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2019-02-11, 03:28 PM
Well, I think I have some of the recordings I made. If I send you a sample, would you be able to give me an appraisal?
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2019-02-11, 03:52 PM
Not too difficult to see if a TBC is there... if the VHS is vertically stable (e.g. vertical lines are, well, vertical, and not jagged) almost surely there is a TBC somewhere - most probably inside the DVD-R.
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2019-02-11, 04:34 PM
Yeah, it does appear to be stable vertically. So does that mean I should stick with the DVD recorder bit, or should I get a capture card all the same?
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2019-02-11, 04:46 PM
Tell me, you have not a capture card (yet)?
 I'd go with it - a cheap used one costs few $/€ and should give you better results than a DVD-R - at least, it should let you capture lossless (and not MPEG-2 like the DVD-R) and let you encode the final capture with better codecs like AVC. |
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